From 9b1f5a4740f227c78d9f2c4be8dd741992007a3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:59:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch #1696.  Don't attempt to call None.close() in dry-run
 mode.

---
 Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
index bda4480ca59..d26fe94b7ef 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ class build_scripts (Command):
                 if f:
                     f.close()
             else:
-                f.close()
+                if f:
+                    f.close()
                 self.copy_file(script, outfile)
 
         if os.name == 'posix':